Working with classmates or independently, respond to the following questions:
What are some strategies for making sure that your voice shines through in a source-based position paper?
Briefly define each of the following strategies for capturing information from sources: quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. If you have written or are writing a source-based paper, pay special attention to your use of quotations, paraphrases, and summaries, perhaps highlighting each in a different color. Have you used each strategy to its best advantage? If not, what revisions might you make?
What does it mean to “launch” a source? What do you do to prepare an effective launch statement?